Andy Warhol Quotes

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

Mostly you are what they think you are.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

Popularity means people think they know you.

You can't control the way people are going to describe you.

...and yet I am what they think I am.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.

I've been around for so long, people have their perceptions of me: good, bad or indifferent.

You are what you're portrayed as.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

I don't know that any of us can control our own image. We are what other people see.

You can't change what people think or say.

It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.'

I don't want a 'good' image.

The people who know me, know me. Those are the only ones I worry about.

I don't know what people think of me.

I don't want people to think I'm a wrestler.

People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.